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Rh more Fooleries to be oberved. It is cutomary among them, for married Women to wah and cleane themelves after their Months, that their Hubands may not catch a Ditemper and die. Likewie, if they have happened to touch a dead Corpe, they immediately cat away the Clothes they have then on; and for this Reaon they always put on their old Clothes, when they go to a Burying, in which they agree with the Jews, as in many other Uages and Ceremonies; for Example, to bewail the Los of their Virginity; to mark themelves upon thir Skin; to cut their Hairs round the Head, which the Lord forbids the Jews to do, Levit. 19. When I conider this and many other of their Cutoms, which eem to be of a Jewih Extraction, I am not far from acceding to the Opinion of a certain famous Writer, concerning the Americans; Rh